Cover Design: Lou Harper
Length: 58,000 words approx
Blurb
On a mining colony planet a long way from Earth, bandit Jedd Lightning dreams of making enough money to get his ship spaceworthy again. During a robbery at a high-class brothel, he meets gorgeous alien rentboy Storm and is instantly smitten,but the heist goes south and Jedd has to high-tail it out of there with only half the loot.
Enslaved by a fierce Madam, Storm's shapeshifting talents make him the most sought after whore on Talmak. He literally can't stop himself becoming his client's fantasy lover. Sick of enforced transformations, he wants to escape, but he's closely guarded and has no experience of the unfamiliar city outside the brothel.
Storm is willing and eager to do anything to persuade Jedd to break him out of his gilded prison. Lucky for him the arrogant outlaw needs Storm's help to free his crewmate, held as hostage by a vicious mob boss who wants Jedd to complete the theft he was hired for. Storm keeps blowing away Jedd's expectations'but with both the law and the mob against them, they could end up with nowhere left to run.
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Excerpt
"Stick 'em up, people. This is a raid. I want all your valuables, right now..." The last words trailed away as Jedd took a really good look at the naked, sweaty couple on the bed. His target, the Right Honorable Senator Artaxico, Thrublet, was on his knees behind one of the most gorgeous bodies Jedd had ever clapped eyes on. A body on hands and knees. A most decidedly human and male body.
Shit, had he gotten the wrong room? Jedd squinted at the client, trying to work out if it really was the senator. He was definitely Talmaki, with his lizard-like body, orange, hairless skin and bulging eyes. But no, he'd studied footage of Artaxico and recognized his large nose and the ridiculous looking rows of diamond studs up both his pointed ears.
"Hold on, just let me finish. Uh!" Artaxico shuddered to a stop, his belly wobbling as he panted obscenely. Jedd winced at the sight. He knew interspecies mating went on. Everyone had heard the tales but intellectual knowledge wasn't the same thing as having it thrust in your face. Talmaki just weren't his idea of sexy. Okay, there had been that one time he'd got drunk enough for a fumble in an alleyway, but the alien's cock had been kind of scary, and things hadn't got very far. But maybe the gorgeous young whore was used to those luminous, scaly shafts of meat. Maybe he even enjoyed them. Was he enjoying Talmaki cock right now? He was certainly hard enough.
Right now Jedd couldn't see the expression on the whore's face as it was buried in the mattress, but maybe that was for the best. There was no way he could be handsome enough to do that incredible body justice. No wonder the senator had decided to try him as a change from the celebrated Divine. The rentboy moaned through his own orgasm, just moments after the senator, and drenched the sheets below him in spunk.
Artaxico withdrew, revealing an intimidating length of glowing scarlet cock, then collapsed back onto the bed. He reached out to pat a perfectly formed buttock. "Run along now, sthweetie. I wouldn't want you to get caught up in any of this nasty business." The lad scooted down to the end of the bed facing Jedd, exposing an equally impressive prick which was filling up again in what must be a record-breaking time.
And as for his face... Suns above! Those were lips Jedd would give anything to see stretched around his dick. But no, he had a job to do, and he wasn't about to get sidetracked by some hyper-sexed rentboy, no matter how astoundingly gorgeous he was.
"The boy stays", Jedd ordered. Artaxico gave him a puzzled look, but Jedd pressed on. I want your datapod and passcode, now!"
"Not a chance in hell. That passcode is top level sthecurity," Artaxico lisped. I really don't imagine there's anything an ignorant monkey like you could do that could force me to sthpeak."
Okay, just as he'd feared, but Jedd had his back-up plan. "Oh yeah?" Jedd strode over to the bed and grabbed the lithe young man under the arm. There was a brief moment where he was distracted by the sensation of naked skin against his own, but he couldn't afford to lose any time so he pulled the whore upright, holding the charge gun to his temple. "Your strumpet gets it if you don't talk. And don't think this is a bluff. I never bluff." He pulled the lad tighter to him for emphasis, but this had the unfortunate effect of bringing more of his own body in contact with those taut muscles, and his face even closer to the thatch of chestnut curls. His nose was on a level with the top of the whore's head, and he pulled in a lungful of the most divine, arousing musk. Feeling a familiar tightening in his pants where he brushed up against those pert buttocks, Jedd cursed his over-active libido. "I'm warning you! The code, now!"
Artaxico just laughed, a mocking bray that wound Jedd up worse than finding a firebug had crawled into his beer. "Utter nonsense! I've stheen killers before and by the sthuns, I employ enough of them, and you really don't have that look in your eyes. You're just an overgrown wassat, aren't you?" The senator twitched his nose in a near perfect imitation of one of the pesky rodents.
Jedd fumed. First a monkey, now a wassat. He turned the gun on the senator. "Okay then, if you don't give me that passcode this instant, you get it. I mean it!"
"Like you'll ever be able to get it off me if I'm dead. Does that antique piece of crap even have the power to kill? Looks more like something my wife would carry to stun any overconfident admirers."
Goddammit, how could the man tell? Jedd waved the gun as threateningly as he could. "You willing to take that risk?"
Artaxico laughed again, getting up to his feet. "What risk? There's security everywhere in this place, you know? I'm just going to stroll out of here and call the guards, and you're not going to do a thing to stop me."
Oh, wasn't he? Jedd aimed at Artaxico's head and pulled the trigger. "Ha! Not so clever now, are you?"
"Is he going to be all right? That was just a stun, wasn't it?" The godlike young man had a voice to match his physique a rich and sultry baritone that rumbled against Jedd's breastbone.
The senator snored before Jedd had a chance to answer, and the lad melted back against him, sighing with what sounded like relief. Their close contact made a certain part of Jedd's body grow stiffer while the rest seemed to want to melt into a puddle.
Would the rentboy mind sneaking in a quickie? Jedd would even pay if he had to, the lad was that gorgeous. Or would the stun charge have set off the internal alarm system? Probably best not to risk dawdling too long.
Still, seemed a shame to waste a moment like this now that Artaxico was unable to interfere. Jedd loosened his hold and let the young man turn in his arms. Holy fuck, Jedd could feel the whore's massive erection prodding his thigh.
He took a deep breath, forced it out. Focus. Not here. Not now. Just gather information. "Captain Jedd Lightning, at your service. And who might you be, gorgeous creature?"
The man chuckled, stepping away from him and turning to fix him with a pair of intensely soulful deep green eyes. "My working name's Divine, but you can call me Storm."
"Divine? But... You're meant to be a girl!" Jedd spluttered.
The young man gave a maddening, secretive smile. "Divine can be whoever you want, Captain. Divine is simply the title of your ideal lover."
"So they swap you around depending on what the johns want? There are other Divines?"
"Something like that. But please, call me Storm." A plaintive note sounded in his voice and his lower lip jutted in an almost-pout. "No one ever does these days."
Storm. It suited him, as there was a wildness in those eyes that Jedd thought he recognized, something he glimpsed in his own reflection every morning. Focusing on Storm's eyes proved a challenge, though, when there was all that naked flesh to feast his gaze on. Smooth, bronzed skin, with just enough hair between those dark nipples to make him want to run his fingers through it. Jedd's gaze followed the trail down all the way to the most majestic cock he'd ever seen. It reached up invitingly, as if seeking Jedd's hand.
"You have quite an imagination, don't you?" Storm said, staring down at himself as if in fascination.
English through and through, Josephine Myles is addicted to tea and busy cultivating a reputation for eccentricity. She writes gay erotica and romance, but finds the erotica keeps cuddling up to the romance, and the romance keeps corrupting the erotica. Jo blames her rebellious muse but he never listens to her anyway, no matter how much she threatens him with a big stick. She's beginning to suspect he enjoys it.
Jo's novel Stuff won the 2014 Rainbow Award for Best Bisexual Romance, and her novella Merry Gentlemen won the 2014 Rainbow Award for Best Gay Romantic Comedy. She loves to be busy, and is currently having fun trying to work out how she is going to fit in her love of writing, dressmaking and attending cabaret shows in fabulous clothing around the demands of a preteen with special needs, an incessantly curious pre-schooler, and a bun in the oven!
Website and blog: josephinemyles.com/
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Shit, had he gotten the wrong room? Jedd squinted at the client, trying to work out if it really was the senator. He was definitely Talmaki, with his lizard-like body, orange, hairless skin and bulging eyes. But no, he'd studied footage of Artaxico and recognized his large nose and the ridiculous looking rows of diamond studs up both his pointed ears.
"Hold on, just let me finish. Uh!" Artaxico shuddered to a stop, his belly wobbling as he panted obscenely. Jedd winced at the sight. He knew interspecies mating went on. Everyone had heard the tales but intellectual knowledge wasn't the same thing as having it thrust in your face. Talmaki just weren't his idea of sexy. Okay, there had been that one time he'd got drunk enough for a fumble in an alleyway, but the alien's cock had been kind of scary, and things hadn't got very far. But maybe the gorgeous young whore was used to those luminous, scaly shafts of meat. Maybe he even enjoyed them. Was he enjoying Talmaki cock right now? He was certainly hard enough.
Right now Jedd couldn't see the expression on the whore's face as it was buried in the mattress, but maybe that was for the best. There was no way he could be handsome enough to do that incredible body justice. No wonder the senator had decided to try him as a change from the celebrated Divine. The rentboy moaned through his own orgasm, just moments after the senator, and drenched the sheets below him in spunk.
Artaxico withdrew, revealing an intimidating length of glowing scarlet cock, then collapsed back onto the bed. He reached out to pat a perfectly formed buttock. "Run along now, sthweetie. I wouldn't want you to get caught up in any of this nasty business." The lad scooted down to the end of the bed facing Jedd, exposing an equally impressive prick which was filling up again in what must be a record-breaking time.
And as for his face... Suns above! Those were lips Jedd would give anything to see stretched around his dick. But no, he had a job to do, and he wasn't about to get sidetracked by some hyper-sexed rentboy, no matter how astoundingly gorgeous he was.
"The boy stays", Jedd ordered. Artaxico gave him a puzzled look, but Jedd pressed on. I want your datapod and passcode, now!"
"Not a chance in hell. That passcode is top level sthecurity," Artaxico lisped. I really don't imagine there's anything an ignorant monkey like you could do that could force me to sthpeak."
Okay, just as he'd feared, but Jedd had his back-up plan. "Oh yeah?" Jedd strode over to the bed and grabbed the lithe young man under the arm. There was a brief moment where he was distracted by the sensation of naked skin against his own, but he couldn't afford to lose any time so he pulled the whore upright, holding the charge gun to his temple. "Your strumpet gets it if you don't talk. And don't think this is a bluff. I never bluff." He pulled the lad tighter to him for emphasis, but this had the unfortunate effect of bringing more of his own body in contact with those taut muscles, and his face even closer to the thatch of chestnut curls. His nose was on a level with the top of the whore's head, and he pulled in a lungful of the most divine, arousing musk. Feeling a familiar tightening in his pants where he brushed up against those pert buttocks, Jedd cursed his over-active libido. "I'm warning you! The code, now!"
Artaxico just laughed, a mocking bray that wound Jedd up worse than finding a firebug had crawled into his beer. "Utter nonsense! I've stheen killers before and by the sthuns, I employ enough of them, and you really don't have that look in your eyes. You're just an overgrown wassat, aren't you?" The senator twitched his nose in a near perfect imitation of one of the pesky rodents.
Jedd fumed. First a monkey, now a wassat. He turned the gun on the senator. "Okay then, if you don't give me that passcode this instant, you get it. I mean it!"
"Like you'll ever be able to get it off me if I'm dead. Does that antique piece of crap even have the power to kill? Looks more like something my wife would carry to stun any overconfident admirers."
Goddammit, how could the man tell? Jedd waved the gun as threateningly as he could. "You willing to take that risk?"
Artaxico laughed again, getting up to his feet. "What risk? There's security everywhere in this place, you know? I'm just going to stroll out of here and call the guards, and you're not going to do a thing to stop me."
Oh, wasn't he? Jedd aimed at Artaxico's head and pulled the trigger. "Ha! Not so clever now, are you?"
"Is he going to be all right? That was just a stun, wasn't it?" The godlike young man had a voice to match his physique a rich and sultry baritone that rumbled against Jedd's breastbone.
The senator snored before Jedd had a chance to answer, and the lad melted back against him, sighing with what sounded like relief. Their close contact made a certain part of Jedd's body grow stiffer while the rest seemed to want to melt into a puddle.
Would the rentboy mind sneaking in a quickie? Jedd would even pay if he had to, the lad was that gorgeous. Or would the stun charge have set off the internal alarm system? Probably best not to risk dawdling too long.
Still, seemed a shame to waste a moment like this now that Artaxico was unable to interfere. Jedd loosened his hold and let the young man turn in his arms. Holy fuck, Jedd could feel the whore's massive erection prodding his thigh.
He took a deep breath, forced it out. Focus. Not here. Not now. Just gather information. "Captain Jedd Lightning, at your service. And who might you be, gorgeous creature?"
The man chuckled, stepping away from him and turning to fix him with a pair of intensely soulful deep green eyes. "My working name's Divine, but you can call me Storm."
"Divine? But... You're meant to be a girl!" Jedd spluttered.
The young man gave a maddening, secretive smile. "Divine can be whoever you want, Captain. Divine is simply the title of your ideal lover."
"So they swap you around depending on what the johns want? There are other Divines?"
"Something like that. But please, call me Storm." A plaintive note sounded in his voice and his lower lip jutted in an almost-pout. "No one ever does these days."
Storm. It suited him, as there was a wildness in those eyes that Jedd thought he recognized, something he glimpsed in his own reflection every morning. Focusing on Storm's eyes proved a challenge, though, when there was all that naked flesh to feast his gaze on. Smooth, bronzed skin, with just enough hair between those dark nipples to make him want to run his fingers through it. Jedd's gaze followed the trail down all the way to the most majestic cock he'd ever seen. It reached up invitingly, as if seeking Jedd's hand.
"You have quite an imagination, don't you?" Storm said, staring down at himself as if in fascination.
English through and through, Josephine Myles is addicted to tea and busy cultivating a reputation for eccentricity. She writes gay erotica and romance, but finds the erotica keeps cuddling up to the romance, and the romance keeps corrupting the erotica. Jo blames her rebellious muse but he never listens to her anyway, no matter how much she threatens him with a big stick. She's beginning to suspect he enjoys it.
Jo's novel Stuff won the 2014 Rainbow Award for Best Bisexual Romance, and her novella Merry Gentlemen won the 2014 Rainbow Award for Best Gay Romantic Comedy. She loves to be busy, and is currently having fun trying to work out how she is going to fit in her love of writing, dressmaking and attending cabaret shows in fabulous clothing around the demands of a preteen with special needs, an incessantly curious pre-schooler, and a bun in the oven!
Website and blog: josephinemyles.com/
Facebook: facebook.com/josephine.myles.author
Twitter: @JosephineMyles
Newsletter: eepurl.com/hrQ4s
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=8383406
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I generally avoid reading shifter stories as I read so many of them, and this is in no way a criticism or a dig to the authors of such stories, they all seemed to be alike.
However the blurb and excerpt intrigued me so I decided to give The Perfect Whore a read. I'm so glad I did and will definitely be reading it again. It's just that good.
The story is fascinating as are the characters. There's a great deal of obvious chemistry between Jedd and Storm.
I also like the way that the Talmaki don't speak fluent English. Quite the refreshing.
I give it 5 out of 5 stars and highly recommend it.
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